Materiality

My artistic passion began with ink when art paper
and crayons were not as available for me as for
other kids. During the onset of my young adult
years, my projects stemmed from iterations on my
arm, and that cheap habit translated into installation
work and researching and exploring potentials of
materials most accessible to me.
My socio-economic circumstances challenged
but also encouraged me to dig into my design
processes.

White in Layers: Interactive Structure

This LED interactive structure is meant to provide a new learning experience of the color white. The omnipresent and yet elusive color is a color in debate. The structure or toy, if you will, is a scientific, playful, and straightforward depiction of what the visual white color means. 2016.

Roski Dada map

A Vinyl installation Inspired by the Situationist Internationl’s Dérive:
a mode of experimental behavior to challenge
conditions of urban society: a technique of
haphazard meandering through psycho-geographic
maps. 2016

Roski Dada Map

Inspired by the Situationist Internationl’s Dérive:
a mode of experimental behavior to challenge
conditions of urban society: a technique of
haphazard meandering through psycho-geographic
maps in order to counteract ideological
decomposition or otherwise find freedom. This is
an anti-USC Map installed in a dungeon, otherwise
known as one of the USC Engineering Lab
warehouses. Purpose: Get out of the University
routine or walking route and you’ll find the map
that is meant to be representative of systematic
student life.

Blue Trails

Blue Trails was a project enamored with blue ball point pen ink and the human figure. A session with each model= 7 hours of drawing, and 2 to 4 hours of shooting. The setup, ink backdrop, and self tests were a year’s worth of ideation and meditation. My problem was an obsession with ink on my body and never having a physical materiality of my work that would last longer than two days. My solution was to engage with intimate friends and draw the long lines I wanted to extend to other life forces.

White in Layers: Interactive Structure

An experience of relearning the color White and it’s mixture of colors of the visible spectrum: meant to grab curiosity and make viewers want to learn about the color themselves without any encouragement from
besides the thing made.